Word: mausoleum
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...passed it on to a well-known Viennese doctor. Eventually it wound up in the possession of the Vienna Society of the Friends of Music, who placed it on exhibition in 1895. Meanwhile, the heirs of Prince Esterhazy, Haydn's friend and patron, had built a magnificent mausoleum in Eisenstadt for Haydn's remains, but refused to have them buried in it without his head. For many years legal complications have held up Haydn's reunion. Last week, when it was reported that the Nazis had ordered the return of Haydn's head, the Friends...
Listed in TIME'S story on Hollywood's Forest Lawn Cemetery were celebrities buried in its mausoleum, and celebrities who have arranged to be buried there when they die. By error, the name of Actor Guy Bates Post, which should have been the first in the last list, appeared as the last in the first. To Actor Post who, hale and spry, is currently on view in MGM's Maytime, TIME'S sincere apologies...
...first large cemetery in the U. S. to install its own mortuary. There is also an Administration Building, copied from an English manor house and full of antiques, a flower shop, a crematory where last year 16% of the dead were received and a towering $4,500,000 Mausoleum-Columbarium, with a Memorial Court of Honor, Memorial Terrace, Sanctuaries of Meditation, Vespers, Benediction, Trust and Truth. For Jean Harlow, William Powell chose the Sanctuary of Benediction...
...scene of services for Will Rogers and Marie Dressier. Prior to last week, last big film funeral at Forest Lawn was that of Irving Thalberg, whose remains were taken from B'nai B'rith Synagog for interment in a $25,000 room in the Mausoleum. Jack and Lottie Pickford are in a family room in the Mausoleum, Flo Ziegfeld and Marie Dressier in crypts. Other famed Forest Lawn dead: Lon Chaney, Wallace Reid, Rudolph Valentino, King Gillette, Senator Frank Flint, Edward L. Doheny Jr., Alexander Pantages, Guy Bates Post. Harold Lloyd, Composer Carrie Jacobs Bond and Jess Willard...
...Behind the mausoleum [of Lenin], at the base of the Kremlin wall, runs a tree-planted walk, and all along it are the graves of revolutionary heroes, and the common grave of many who died in the October Revolution. Sverdlov is buried here, and Dzerzhinski, Nogin, Podbyelski, Krassin, John Reed and others. Set in niches in the Kremlin wall are funeral urns containing the ashes of others of the honored dead including those of Bill Haywood, Charles Ruthenberg and Paxton Hibben, all Americans...